The Lntroduction to the Second A olnme. 
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cannot but take Notice of fome Paflages. Of thefe one was 
concerning Dr. Burnet of the Charter-Houfe his Theory of 
the Earth, (fome of the Notions whereof he had probably 
from an old Abaffinian Philofopher mention’d, in Francefco: 
Patritio’s libro della rhetorica Dialogo 1.) which is a Book 
thought to be wrote, as all Dr. Burnet’s Books are, in an ex- 
traordinary fine Style. Mr. Flamftead, the Aftronomer at 
Greenwich, {peaking to me with great Wamrth about fome of 
his einer! faid at laft, that he would prove and make him 
know, that there went more to the making of the World 
then a well turn’d Period. -I have had the Fate to fall 
under the Difpleafure of fome Critics, for even the Faults 
of others, as becaufe ] made amongft many others of the 
like Nature a faithful Quotation of the Name of a fort of 
Coral or Coral Stone from Boetzus de Boodt one. of the beft 
writers upon that Subje&t, viz. Aftroitidis 2am & 3um Genus, 
(which natural Produdtions do not agree to the Defcription of 
the Aftroites of Pliny) muft this feemingly Grammatical Slip 
in that Writer, in giving that Name to the Subftances he def 
cribes be imputed to me? It/is certain that as [Knowledge of 
Things that were not known: before: increafess; new Names 
mutt be given to:'them. The endeavouring to exprefs new 
Things by old Claffic Words, hath been.a hindrance to Natural 
-Hiftory, and it is well known what Confufiom another Mark 
of profound and great [.earning, the tranflating proper Names 
of Perfons and Places into Claffic Latin hath brought into the 
Hiftory of the Progrefs of Learning, and of Places in'Geo- 
graphy ; fo that it hath been found neceflary to print a DiGio- 
nary for ZT buanus’s Works, and another for Buchanan’s, to 
bring fuch Names back to their proper and vulgar Significa- 
tion, that the Senfe of the Writers may be underftood.* [ have 
learn’d, I think, more from Ovzedo’s Hiftory of the Weft- 
Indies wrote in Spanifb, his Mother Tongue, he under- 
ftanding no other, ‘than from the long fine turn’d Periods of 
the celebrated ‘Latin Writer Peter Martyr in his: Epittles, 
I have heard Fault found with the Word Operatio, for the 
Effe&ts of vomiting, purging; or other Phyfick, which though © 
it be not ufed by Celfus, is very well underftood amongft 
all People“ at Home and Abroad pra€tifing * Phyfick, and 
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